Cell Phone Dude

To the guy in front of my in line at the Arby’s today:

Dude, get off your fucking cell phone when you are in Arby’s!
Hang up and order your food. We don’t want to hear you yammer on in line about things on the phone. It’s rude to the person on the phone, the lady behind the counter, and the rest of us in line.
Hang up. Order your food in a timely manner as to not inconvience the rest of us and then go call the person back from elsewhere.

You know, I seriously need to look into a cell phone jammer. How hard can it be to put noise on the frequency band? I’ll teach these fuckers.

Here ya go

Feeling kinda crappy tonight. School starts for the girls tomorrow, so I need to get some rest before the morning chaos.
SXSW
SXSW people and want to be SXSW people take note that registration is underway. If you register before September 19th you can save a bunch of cash. Saving 25 bucks is enough to pay for a dinner and beers in Austin. For those that don’t know what SXSW is, check out the site about the conference. I’m definitely going again. I had a great time last March there.
Security
There is a new Critical Update for Windows. Windows users, please update your systems to avoid the next virii wave. Make sure your virus definitions are up to date. Michele got sent well over a hundred email for both the SoBig and Klez virii when she was away.
Books
Two great books from Thomas Perry have been reprinted and are available again after being out of print. Metzger’s Dog and The Butcher’s Boy are both superb crime/caper novels. Even if you’ve never read a crime novel before, you’ll love these books.
Email
Non-Outlook email user might find this funny. If you set the x-message-flag on you client, Outlook users will see a special message from you. Check out the how-to.

Ramping back up to speed

The last two weeks have been filled with work, travel, and a lack of blogging.
We returned from Cincinnati yesterday, and I’m getting back into the normal rhythm of home again. Hopefully I will keep you entertained better going forward.
Weblogs
Waxy has a great post with links to superb mixes from the 80s. Absolutely kick ass stuff.
Martin has changed his blog to maximum annoy factor, knowing I hate cicadas.
Squidly has a copy of a hilarious Apple Switch Ad. Mac Lover or Hater. You’ll laugh at this.
Alex at Handcoding has a recipe for Peanut Butter/Honey/Bacon/Banana sandwiches that I much try. It’s like a chokersandwich on steroids. Don’t tell my wife.
Politics
Looks like President Bush is starting to take some heat for a wrecked economy and an overseas quagmire. It’s about time. This election looks to be a humdinger of a slugfest. No centrists allowed. In an article at Salon about the election I read these tasty bits about the Democrats and thier feelings toward Bush.

It’s not just his harebrained ideological nostrums for how to reorder America and the world. They hate him and it’s personal. They hate his frat-boy smirk, his phony fly-boy act, his cringe-inducing mangling of the language, his born-again sanctimony, even his Texas twang and his godforsaken, tumbleweed ranch where only someone as fence-post-dumb as W. would hole up in August.

Hell, yeah. Let’s get this tussle started.

In the home stretch

The wedding is over. Lisa and Mark are hitched. The entire family is tired.
Tomorrow my little family returns home.
Too tired to do anything but pack. Blogging will have to wait.

Vacation Work

Currently I’m on vacation in Cincinnati. But I’m working.
My sister-in-law is getting married on Saturday and there is plenty to do. At the moment, I am updating one of the computers and securing it against attack. It only had 27 Critical Updates to patch…
Not to mention the anti-virus scan…
Tonight is some sort of family dinner and I actually need to wear a jacket. It’s hot here and the cicadas are loud. For all of LA’s problems, weather and insects aren’t issues back home.
California uber alles.

Forty Years

Today my parents, Pete & Judi Pusateri, celebrate FORTY YEARS of being married.
My mother wrote up the weekend on her weblog.
Stop for a minute and think about what it takes to go forty years in a marriage. It is an amazing accomplishment.
At dinner, I toasted them for forty years of marriage and to forty more. I hope you will too.

Enough is enough

OK, I’m tired of the virii.
If you are a Cruft reader and you use Windows, please go to Windows Update right now and hit Scan for updates, and get your system patched up.
Do it right now. I mean it. Don’t make me come over there and yell at you.
Next, make sure your anti-virus software is running. If you don’t think you have anti-virus software, go to Symantec and download the trial version of Norton Anti-Virus. Then install the software.
Do it right now. I’m not kidding. I’d hate for your computer to be a part of the virus problem. If you don’t run anti-virus, I’m going to come over to you house with a baseball bat and smash your computer so it can’t carry any more virii.